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Random Poll - Vista or XP
Mark_Solesbury:
Wallet has nothing to do with it for once - Work will buy it :)
I dont *need* to upgrade, but i need to learn the OS
Right - Decision made.
Duel boot.
Boddle:
Not aware of any software that run only in Vista, So XP will run it better due less of resouces used by the OS.
wormster:
Xp is certainly more stable than Vista,
Its bill gates's way of making $quillion$ of $$ to $alt away in hi$ $wi$$ bank account$,
by relea$ing $oftwrare rele$e, after $oftware relea$e and charging u$ the privalage to use hi$ operating $y$tem.
Switch to open sourced software like: linux, open office, firefox and vlc media player, C'mon FIGHT the MAN.
V8MoneyPit:
We have 3 PC's networked together at work. 2 run XP and one runs Vista...... The Vista one is a complete pain. The other 2 run fine. It runs painfully slow in some tasks where the others run fine. We can't get our postcode software to run properly and it is a modern well supported software. The machine Vista is installed on is a perfectly reasonable processor and has plenty of RAM so it shouldn't be an issue.
My wife has Vista on her laptop and it fails to recognise her camcorder. Again the camcorder is barely a year old.
Personally, I wouldn't go near Vista if I had a choice.
Wireless:
Just put in a PCLOS Live CD and explore Nix, you'll wonder why you never did before.
If you really need to run Windows Applications, use WINEdoors, and install them as Windows Applications under Linux, they will come up in a Windows Desktop and you'll never know the difference. You can even enable a 3D GUI like they have in Vista, only it'll be working on hardware that Vista says won't support.
Go on, give it a go, you can install it later if you like it, and it'll take just 20 minutes, including Dual Boot with your existing Windows if you want to keep it.
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